Digging Deeper

6.The Secret Room

"It's been twenty minutes since she had gone inside. I am getting nervous" I can see Ariel's sweat drops down from her forehead.

"Let's wait. She will be back soon." Althea comforts Ariel.

"Let's open the door. She being tiny might not be able to open the door." Suggests Althea.

Suddenly, we heard a click on the door. Our eyes reach to the knob of the door. The door slightly swung open but there was no sign of a cat.

We hide behind the walls to see who it is. The person let their foot out and we are certain that it would be a professor.

A tan body-built man with the height of 5'4 came out of the room and spots us. His tangled reddish black hairs are dancing as he comes towards us. A high-spirited professor. By the looks, we can say that he's going to put us on a death sentence.

My heart beats is now beating at 102 per second . The panic surge through me. I dart my eyes from him to my friends. Terror thunders down on them as well.

We all made our presence when we heard a cat purr. My brain cells were so wrecked that I forgot for a second that where did that cat come from?

"This professor was not enough to scare me now even the cat has also joined," I frown.

"Idiot, it's Crio, in the cat form," Althea said swatting my head.

I gag at my forgetfulness. I look at the professor and whispered into Pratz's ear

"What to do now with this Mr. Choleraic?,"

Pratz raises her eyebrows and bounces the question back.

"Why are you all here ?" Mr. Choleraic asked.

Silence. That is the answer we gave. That is the only answer which came out of our open mouth.

He turns to me and asks: "Where are you from?"

"Yorktown, sir"

"Hmm. Myself Mr. Arijaado Dvinde. I am the professor of Magic Arts. Now get inside my chamber. I want to know your purpose of coming here."

I turn my head to the direction where I heard the cat's meow. Althea is holding Crio in her hands.

"When did you get her?" I asked her

"When you were busy pumping the adrenaline through your body ," she rolls her eyes.

"Stop your talk and get inside," Ariel finally enunciated.

We all went inside the room and Mr. Arijaando locked the door.

"How did you reach up here? No one dare to get here" Professor asked with a straight face.

"I and Rewa were passing by and saw this dusty staircase, we wanted to explore and ended up here," Pratz answers truthfully. I might have come up with a different story.

I scan the room when I found something out of place. There is a tawdry mirror attached to the side of the bookshelf where a marble clock supported by a lion couchant ticking the time and beside that shelf, was a separate rack of books, something was out of place. If there is a bookshelf why is a rack of books beside it? I wanted to know. And I know whom to take for a mystery hunt.

I leaned over Ariel and explains the whole thing. When she looks there, she also find it odd.

"You and Pratz go and find out what is up with this place while we'll keep the Professor busy," Ariel said in a very low voice, and I nod agreeing.